Why Skybox Imaging?

Experience the Skybox Imaging difference for yourself.

Focus

We are relentlessly focused on bringing the power of satellite imagery to businesses - the right data at the right time, served in the right way. We have spoken with thousands of customers and we always hear the same request: provide high enough quality imagery to see the drivers of our global economy, capture it on a timely and consistent basis, and make it easy to unlock the valuable insights within. Our vision is driven by our business users and it is simple: transparency. We are focused on providing you a level of global transparency that transforms the way your business makes decisions and lets you see the world in a whole new way.

People

We're a data company, but we do put things in space - and that is very very cool. Our people have a sense of wonder about the products and services we offer and we want you to feel that same sense of wonder when you work with us. We work hard to make sure that doing business with Skybox is easy and, dare we say it, fun. Every piece of paperwork & legalese is a distraction away from just how much we can accomplish working together - so we make sure that every Skybox relationship is about the people, not the paperwork.

Flexibility

We build. We cut metal, solder boards, and write code - lots of code. Our people span the spectrum from fundamental research to satellite operations to machine vision & data science. They have collectively worked on more than a hundred satellite missions - including nearly every imaging satellite program in history. They are comfortable running analytics over many petabytes of data. This breadth allows us to see problems from more angles & to combine the art of satellite design with the science of the internet age. The technologies within Skybox are designed and built by Skybox engineers - which means we can constantly evolve them to meet your hardest challenges.

The co-founders of Skybox Imaging, Dan Berkenstock, Julian Mann, John Fenwick and Ching-Yu Hu, realized early on they had one thing in common: they don't take no for an answer. Hear the team of Stanford alumni explain their passion to disrupt the satellite imaging industry and share engaging tales of launching their unique venture.

When Ching-Yu Hu says she's the only "nonrocket scientist" among her company's four co-founders, it's tempting to think she's speaking metaphorically. But before starting Skybox, her co-founders were working on the Google X prize for the moon rover. They are literally rocket scientists.

In 2007, Dan Berkenstock was in grad school at Stanford University in California, trying to figure out a future direction. Less than eight years later, he is the Satellite Executive of the Year for 2014. To say his rise has been meteoric would be an understatement.

At the beginning of 2014, Skybox Imaging was a small company with a lot of buzz, having just launched its first micro satellite (with hopes of eventually deploying 23 more) and captured the first commercial high-definition footage of the Earth from orbit.